Hannah Pick-Goslar

About the Author

Hannah Pick-Goslar—referred to as Lies Goosens in Anne Frank’s diary—was born in Berlin in 1928. In June 1943, Hannah and her family were arrested in Amsterdam and sent to Westerbork transit camp, then to Bergen-Belsen. Hannah survived there fourteen months, until the camp was liberated in 1945. She emigrated to British Mandate Palestine in 1947, shortly before it became Israel, and trained as a nurse. She passed away in 2022 at the age of ninety-three.